1 Corinthians 2:9 - "Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him."

It is a wonderful world out there, in
the future, where God is inviting you and me to share
with Him the blessings and the delights of the world
He is preparing for a home of the redeemed from this
earth. The artistic endeavors of the creative minds
inside Disney World, or any other super creative center,
could never come close, not even in the faintest shadow,
to the grandiose creation of Almighty God.

We can begin to build a picture of the
world to come taking some hints from the Word of God.
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there
was no more sea." Rev. 21:1.

For the students of Geography there will
be no more Atlantic Ocean, no more Pacific Ocean. There
will be an earth with soft and low elevations surrounding
innumerable lakes all around the earth.

The "first heaven that was passed
away"
is the actual atmospheric sky of clouds, stormy weather,
hurricanes, snow and lightning that sometimes unleashes
the fury of the elements upon us. It was not that way
before the Flood. At Creation, God created a friendly
sky. "And God said, Let there be a firmament in
the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters." Gen. 1:6, 7. Can you imagine
a shell or envelope of water high above the sky protecting
all life from the effects of ultraviolet light and
harmful radiation? Beside that, the envelope of water
around the earth was there for the refraction of the
rays of light and heat that provided a more uniform
temperature all around the globe. A garden could be
planted even at the poles. All that water, on the outer
shell, came down at the time of the Flood, and the
formation of ice began at the poles as the rays of
heat were no longer bent toward the ground.

Today the earth is watered when it rains.
The water seeps through the layers of the ground to
form the subterranean aquifer. The excess water starts
running downhill from the smallest streams to the big
rivers when they join together to form large bodies
of water like the Nile, the Amazon or the Mississippi,
which are returning the evaporated water to the ocean.

Completely different before the Flood;
it never rained. Every day the plants received their
moisture from a heavy dew during the night. "For the
Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth...
But there went up a midst from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the ground." Gen. 2:5, 6. Besides
the dew, the earth was irrigated by four rivers that
started at Eden. Like a volcano the spring came forth
from a large eye of water. "And a river went out of
Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted,
and became into four heads." Gen. 2:10. Here a mighty
river started running downhill, dividing and subdividing
into smaller streams until all the ramifications covered
the face of the earth. It could be compared to the
blood circulation. It goes out from the big arteries
to the smallest one in the whole body to return through
the veins. The water returned through the veins forming
"the fountains of the great deep." Gen. 7:11.

Is it to much to imagine that the antediluvians
were using those waterways to travel to all parts of
the earth? The names of the four rivers were: Pison,
Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates. The descendants of Noah
took the name of the last one to name the river they
were following downhill as the Euphrates of today.
Gen. 2:10-14.

Genesis 7:11 tell us that at the time
of the Flood, the waters that were in the shell above
the sky came down as a torrential rain, and the waters
that were in the fountains of the great deep came up
as a violent tsunami all around the earth.

Now let's come to some details of the
earth made new, at the establishment of God's Kingdom
on earth. Rev. 21, 22. We begin again with a great
river. "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life,
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb." Rev. 22:1.

"And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband." Rev. 21:2.

"And there shall be no night there; and
they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for
the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign
for ever and ever." Rev. 22:5.

"And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more
pain: for the former things are passed away." Rev.
21:4.

"And they shall build houses, and inhabit
them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
of them..." Isaiah 65:21, 22.

The promise made to Abraham and to the
children of Israel will be gloriously fulfilled in
the earth made new. "He that overcometh shall
inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall
be my son." Rev. 21:7. The inheritance, the land
promised to Abraham, the new earth, will be yours too,
if you overcome. What things to overcome? All things
that hinder the entrance to God's Kingdom, beginning
with selfish pride. "Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God." John 3:3. Not with human power,
but with the grace of God, trusting in the cleansing
power of the blood of Jesus.

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there
is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor
female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if
ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise." Gal. 3:28, 29.

"They shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor
any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of water: and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes." Rev. 7:16, 17.

"Blessed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city." Rev. 22:14.

"And it shall come to pass, that
from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath
to another, shall all flesh come to worship before
me, saith the Lord." Isaiah 66:23.

Until Christ comes back to rescue His
people from the present earth, we have to center our
hopes and trust in the promise Jesus made:
"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it
were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare
a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2,
3.

This is the home, the world to come,
the inheritance given to the overcomer, that none other
can take away. It is yours, if you apply for it.